Improvement in coffee-pots



COFFEE-POT.

PatentedFe'b. 15.1876.

ETERS. PMOTD-LITHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. Dv C.

UNITED -STATES PATENT OFFCE.

JOHN P. WHITLOW, OF TAMAROA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT iN COFFEE-POTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173.703, dated February 15,1876; application tiled Y January 17, 1876.

To all whom fit'may concern l Be it known that I, J onN P. WHITLOW, of Tamaroa, in the county of Perry and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coifee-Pots; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specifica-tion.

My invention is primarily intendedfor use in extracting the matters soluble in boiling water and contained in coffee; butit is equally applicable to making decoctions or infusions of tea or other herbs, extracting, and at the same time separating, soluble from insoluble portions.

This invention consists in notching the rim of the cover of the pot or .vessel, and arranging in the vessel a perforated septum, which extends from side to 4side of the vessel, and from the bottoln to the top thereof, the notches in the rim of the cover permitting the top of the said-septum to come up flush with the cover when the latter is closed.

Figure rl in the, drawing represents a ver tical section of my improvedcoffee-pot, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross section.

S represents the transverse iinelyperforated partition vor septum, extending from side to side of said pot .or vessel, and upward from the bottom. It is made .of sheet metal, with many holes ofsufticient tineness punched therein; or it may be made of wire-gauze or other suitable material, and it is attached to the bottom b and side walls w of the pot P by solder, rivets, or any other suitable means. The said perforated septum S divides the vspacein the interior of the vesselinto, the

chambers O and O', the hchamber' Of communieating directly and freely with the spout s, andthe chamber O communicating with the chamber C through the perforations P in the perforated septum `S. The

`cover c of the pot or vessel P has formed in its rim T notches n, which permit the entrance into the said notches of the In this construction of the 'pot or vessel, I obtain a vessel easily cleaned, without detachable parts to readjust after cleaning, and in which l can most thoroughly, economically, and rapidly extract the virtues 'of coffee or tea, and, in the case of coffee, without the necessity ofeggs or other albuminous or gelatinous matter to cause the settling of the grounds, the said vessel or pot being used ih the following manner:

The coffee, tea, or other substance to be shaking the vessel and its contents, or A by stirring the contents with` a suitable implement.- 'When the infusion, decoction, or solution is poured out from the spout s, the undissolved portions are' retained in the chamber O by the perforated septum S, while the liquid contents of the said chamber O pass freely throughl the said perforated septum S into the chamber C', and thence out ofthe spout s. While the steepin g progresses, if boiling water be used, the pot will be less likely to boil over, asfthe steam escapes through the perforated septum S, and reaches the space at the top through the unobstructed surface of the liquid in the chamber O', instead of violently lifting the cohering coffee-grounds in a mass, as is the casein the use of ordinary coffee-pots.

In the drawing the transverse perforated septum S is shown as perpendicular to the bottom b ofthe vessel; but itmay be inclined,

so as to leave the top of either chamber, U or notches, n, in combination with the septum S, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

,i n Witnesses:

C. G. JEWELL,

D, C. BARBER, J r..

JOHN P. WHI'ILOW. 

